Find Your Light[ness]

I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be./ Am an attendant lord. One that will do/ To swell a progress, start a scene or two/ By sea-girls wreathed in seaweed red and brown-/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

[findyourlightness]

““Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.””

— Rumi (via yama-bato)

[clairvalon]

[yama-bato]

“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

Rumi (via yama-bato)

[poetsandwriters]

Toni Morrison in a feature from the November/December 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

[clintnatalias]

denial. fear. longing.

donika kelly | jennifer hubbard | vàzaki nada | terry evans photography | richard siken | sierra demulder | the world to come (2020) | louise glück  | anaïs nin | federico garcía lorca

[yama-bato]

“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

Rumi (via yama-bato)

[amalamalakoi]

[onemoretime]

For decades, auto accidents have been the leading cause of death among children, but in 2020 guns were the No. 1 cause, researchers say. Overall firearm-related deaths increased 13.5% between 2019 and 2020, but such fatalities for those 1 to 19 years old jumped nearly 30%, according to a research letter in New England Journal of Medicine.

npr.org

We should all be sick this day.

[weltenwellen]

Bradley Trumpfheller, from “Speculative Realism”

[adiajamille]

source

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[alderthought]

It seemed his whole vocation was to look into himself, to analyse what was going on inside him, as if the very accumulation of details could convince him he was really alive.

Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen (via alderthought)

[findyourlightness]

You will ruin me.

I know.

You will ruin yourself.

I know.

We will be the wreck of each other.  They will find bits and pieces of us on some distant shore, turned and tumbled by time.  They will carry us home and put us in a jar on a windowsill.  The light will glint through our depths and they will wonder, then, at who we were.

We who are now in pieces.

[apokrify]

THIS DRAWING WAS MADE 700 YEARS AGO BY A 7-YEARS-OLD BOY NAMED ONFIM WHO LIVED IN NOVOGROD.

[oarfjsh]

[zvaigzdelasas]

more of onfime’s drawings:

[trashboat]

[bintadnan]

-Excerpt from Simone De Beauvoir's interview with The Paris Review.

[sandmoonyelse]

[helpingg]

[poetsandwriters]

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”

—Miles Davis